FURTHER READINGS

West Germany – Commented Bibliography:

To this date, Thomas (2003) provides the first history of West German protest movements in English. For further contextualization of “1968” in West German history, see Gilcher-Holtey (1998), Schildt (2000), and Hodenberg (2006). Klimke (2007) provides an overview of various aspects of the cultural and media history of “1968”, and Siegfried (2006) examines links of youth and student cultures to consumer society.

The history of German SDS itself is chronicled by Lönnendonker (2002), and its connection to the Frankfurt school is examined by Kraushaar (1998). Gassert (2006) integrates the student movement in further efforts to come to terms with the National Socialist past. Herzog (2005) frames the student movement and the Kommune I into a larger history of sexuality in Germany, and Markovits (1993) provides a longer narrative leading up to the foundation of the Green Party.

Klimke (2008) analyzes the transnational dimensions and establishment response, whereas Schmidtke (2003) and Varon (2004) offer a comparative perspective with respect to the United States and Juchler (1996) highlights the relationship to Third World liberation movements.

Gassert, Philipp, and Alan E. Steinweis. Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955–1975. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.